Jianhua Yao

Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China

Reform and Resistance in the Publishing Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

This bookconcentrates on knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and China's integration into the global political economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780739198513
• ISBN-10: 0739198513
• Artikelnr.: 50435373

Autorenporträt

Jianhua Yao received his doctoral degree in sociology from Queen's University, Canada, and his research interests include political economy, media and communication, and labor issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface and
Acknowledgements............................................................000
List of
Tables...................................................................................000
Abbreviation...................................................................................000
Introduction....................................................................................
000 Knowledge Workers in China's Publishing
Industry.............................. ...000 Class Consciousness of
Knowledge Workers....................................000 Chinese Media
Workers and Editors.............................................000
Responses and
Unions..............................................................000
Research
Questions.................................................................000
Methods....................................................................................000
Archival
Studies.....................................................................000
Surveys...............................................................................000
Semi-structured
Interviews........................................................000 What
Makes the Two Publishing Houses Special.........................000 Basic
Interview Questions....................................................000
Supplementary
Interviews.........................................................000
Organization of the
Book................................................................000
Chapter 1 Political Economy, Media Reform, and Knowledge
Workers...............000 Political
Economy........................................................................000
What Is Political
Economy........................................................000 Central
Qualities of Political Economy..........................................000
Media
Reform............................................................................000
The Party Principle and the Propaganda
Model.................................000 Media
Commodification.............................................................000
Media
Democratization..............................................................000
Knowledge
Workers.....................................................................000
Labor and Class
Analysis..........................................................000 Labor
and
Globalization............................................................000
Labor and
Unions...................................................................000
Conclusion.................................................................................000
Chapter 2 The Commodification Process: Publishing Reform in
China...............000 The Commodification
Process.........................................................000 China's
Media
Reform..................................................................000
Background of the Chinese Media
Reform........................................000 China's Publishing
Industry Reform.............................................000
Administrative Management of China's Publishing Industry............000
Publishing Industry
Laws.....................................................000 Changes in
China's Publishing Industry....................................000 The
Advertising Industry in China...........................................000
Precarious Chinese
Editors..............................................................000
Basic Information of the
Surveys.................................................000 Contingent
Employment...........................................................000
The Decline of Social Welfare
Benefits..........................................000 Intense Work
Pressure..............................................................000
Conclusion.................................................................................000
Chapter 3 The Structuration Process: The Five Critical
Problems......................000 The Five Critical
Problems.............................................................000
Technological Changes in
China.......................................................000 Following
the Party Principle in the Media Marketization Process...............000
The Rise of Market
Competition..................................................000 Strict
Party
Control..................................................................000
The Growing Tension within the Propaganda-Commercial Model..........000 The
Marketization Process in the Social Welfare
System..........................000 Changes in the Pension
System...................................................000 Changes in the
Health Care System..............................................000
Smashing of the Work-unit
System....................................................000 The Inner
Division of the Working
Class.............................................000 Divisions between
Editors and Leaders..........................................000 Inner
Divisions of
Editors..........................................................000
Conclusion: Social Changes, Class Relations, and Power
Dynamics.............000 Chapter 4 The Spatialization Process:
Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Global Division of
Labor..............................................................................000
Globalization and the Chinese Publishing
Industry..................................000 Transnational Media
Corporations in China.......................................000 Chinese
Publishing Exports in the Global Media Sphere........................000
Chinese Publishing
Conglomerates..................................................000
Neoliberalism and Chinese
Editors....................................................000 The Twin
Modalities of the Neoliberal Governmentality.....................000
China's Accession to the World Trade
Organization...........................000 The Global Division of Labor and
Chinese Editors..................................000 The Emergence of the
Global Division of Labor...............................000 The Impact of
the Global Division of Labor on Chinese Editors.............000
Conclusion.................................................................................000
Chapter 5 Labor Convergence: Worker Organizations and Trade
Unions..............000 Labor
Convergence.....................................................................000
Worker
Organizations...................................................................000
The Publishers Association of
China............................................000 The Publishers
Association of Shanghai........................................000 Trade
Unions.............................................................................000
Trade Unions as "Transmission Belts"
..........................................000 The All-China Federation of
Trade Unions.....................................000 The Labor
Law......................................................................000
Rethinking of Worker Organizations and Trade
Unions............................000 Limitations of Worker Organizations
and Trade Unions......................000 Labor
Unrest.........................................................................000
Prospects: How to Better Represent Workers' Rights and
Interests.............000 Technological
Developments................................................000 Changes
inside the All-China Federation of Trade Unions..............000 The
Emergence of Labor Non-governmental Organizations............000
Conclusion.................................................................................000
Conclusion......................................................................................000
Summary of the
Book........................................................................000
Contributions of the
Book...............................................................000
Theoretical
Significance............................................................000
Methodological
Significance......................................................000
Substantive
Significance...........................................................000
Suggestions for Future
Research.......................................................000
References......................................................................................000
Appendix A Original Survey
Questions....................................................000 Appendix B
Interview
Outline...............................................................000
Appendix C Interview Questions for Editors and Union
Officials.....................000 Appendix D Interview
Participants.........................................................000